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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Heat Wave

We’re right
in the middle of an early summer heat wave, or more specifically, sauna like
weather.It is so humid out that
breathing is difficult, and the lows at night are somewhere around 70 with
highs hovering around 90.I know for
some of you this is weather you may be used to, but here in my corner of New
Jersey we can usually count on the nighttime low being in the mid to low 60’s,
and the kind of weather we’ve been having generally only lasts 2-3 days, but we
are approaching 2 weeks and no signs of change on the horizon if the weather
people are right.As I was driving to a
family celebration the other afternoon I passed a woman jogging along the
county road on which I travelled.As the
air conditioning was blasting in my car I wondered who in their right mind
would be out running in these conditions.Upon further consideration I remembered that as a child I was out
running around every day in the summer heat whether playing Frisbee or baseball
with my brothers, chasing butterflies by myself, or tag with friends, heat and
humidity were no obstacles.Now I’m such
a wimp that I won’t even go for a walk in the morning if it’s too humid.We were also outside after dark.If we weren’t playing hide and seek, we were
sitting on the porch as a family drinking lemonade and just talking—it was too
hot in the house and we’d sit outside until bed time in the summer.Now we have central air and I can’t help but
feel that I am somehow wasting the summer away waiting for it to be comfortable
outside.I think I have this argument
with myself every summer now, whether to go outside and enjoy the sights and
sounds of summer or stay inside where the air is more comfortable and forget
what season it is.I really think I should
go outside, at least until I start to sweat and truly feel that it’s summer.

1 comment:

Anonymous
said...

Agreed!! I try to be outside as much as possible during the summer, but when I can't, I open the windows in the house and leave the A/C off as long as possible. I also drive the Jeep with the A/C off and the windows down!Ralph